High Tension (2005)

[rubenmania]

DVD DESCRIPTION:
Marie and Alexia are classmates and best friends. Hoping to prepare for their college exams in peace and quiet, they decide to spend a weekend in the country at Alexia's parents secluded farmhouse. But in the dead of night, a stranger knocks on the front door. And with the first swing of the knife, the girls' idylic weekend turns into an endless night of horror..

STORY: 5 out of 5:

ACTORS QUALITY: 5 out of 5: The 2 girls did an awsome job

VIOLENCE: 5 out of 5: Extreme murder

GORE: 5 out of 5: Extreme

SPECIAL EFFECTS: 4 out of 5: I thought one part was overdone

LOVE: 1 out of 5

FINAL THOUGHTS: What an awsome movie...Go get this one today...If you can handle foriegn horror than its for you....It had me glued to the tv the whole time, I didnt want to get up for nothing....

OVERALL SCORE: 5 out of 5

[wvhorrorfan]

this one i got a few days before they advertised it on the tv.

if you are wondering, i found it online.

and it is spooky and chilling.

[Tat2]

Good Movie - A worthy addition to your collection.

*The gore (5/5?), while good and well executed (no pun intended), isn't as extreme as many other films (think Bad Taste, Street Trash,Cannibal Holocaust/Ferox, etc...) but ranks up there with Henry:Portrait of a Serial Killer and the like, and with the exception of one particular death scene (which I won't mention due to the spoilage factor) are average IMO.

[The STE]

Terrible movie. Decent premise, shite execution, totally nonsensical ending that's become a complete and utter cliché in contemporary film.

[PR3SSUR3]

The "schizophrenic" explanation to the preceding events may be becoming more popular these days, but as films like Haute Tension have shown us this can still be a very effective and unpredictable move.

Similar revelations in Fight Club and American Psycho work well (just don't read the books first! er... or this post :p)

I'm more concerned about the "they're really dead!" theme, since The Sixth Sense was glaringly bloody obvious (main reason: Bruce Willis in the title role - his presence reeked of something afoot right from the start that the director desperately tried to conceal until the end) - though The Others wasn't so!

[AUSTIN316426808]

I didn't think that was the case with American Psycho.

[PR3SSUR3]

Similar, in that the movie portrays a series of events that are not happening strictly as we are shown they are.

But American Psycho has several interpretations.

[RavageRitual]

I really liked this movie to. I thought it was very good. I saw it in theatres but i havnt bought it yet. I plan on picking it up pretty soon though.

[AUSTIN316426808]

Originally posted by PR3SSUR3
Similar, in that the movie portrays a series of events that are not happening strictly as we are shown they are.

But American Psycho has several interpretations.

Little misinterpretation, I see what you're saying now.

[Zero]

I liked this film a lot - but i also found the ending to be annoying. Not so much because it uses a cliched move to the schizophrenic - but because I felt cheated. This was not a film like Sixth Sense where everything actually fits together if you only know the ending - parts of High Tension just don't make sense - (e.g., the scene where Killer Man is abusing a decapitated head while Maria is driving with her friend).

I mentioned this to a friend who pointed out that at the very very beginning of the film - Maria is in the hospital and someone says "are we recording? " So, the whole story (and hte DVD extras confirm this) is maria recounting the events to the doctors and police (in an original cut of the film, the "reveal" didn't happen until the very end and then Maria is confronted with the videotape from the gas station).

Anyway, on another note, another friend mentioned to me that the whole lesbian-lust-kills-whole-family is part of french culture - there was a notorious murder in the 30s when two sisters (also incestuous lovers) killed their employers and then gave no reason for the killings - this became a point of obsession for the french psychoanalytic community at the time (and since).

hmmm